NEW CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING COMPLEX IN GRAZ

• Exterior Architecture
• Interior Architecture
• Site Supervision

The social housing complex, as one of the many urban development challenges that is located in flat suburban city area, set out to achieve maximum living quality and creative expression with a minimum of resources. The approach is to generate attitude that goes beyond cheap looking, socially underrated, and inflexible building typology creating in-stead formidable, individual friendly, and modular units. By analyzing needs and values in an individual and social context, the flexible floor plan system has been developed with an aim to enable a variety of different apartment typologies. This ensures creative diversity and a correspondingly interesting outward appearance relating cryptically to systematically optimized structure for a very low budget. High degree of individuality, through the combination, subtraction or addition of spaces, allows outcomes up to 40 floor layouts – meaning great qualitative and quantitative value. The clear structure of the building – complemented with balconies, connecting stairways, and roof terraces – facilitates a dynamic living organism that builds on interconnectedness, access to the outdoors, and a multiplicity of choices as a response to forward-thinking social housing.

• project name: FLUR 20
• function: Residential, Best of
• location: Graz, AUSTRIA
• client:
  • GSL Gemeinnützige Bauvereinigung GmbH
• floor space: 1521 m²
• number of floors: 4
• number of units: 25
• construction start: 09 / 2011
• completion: 09 / 2012
• construction cost: EUR 2,2 million
• project team:

  • Patrick Handler
    Martin Lesjak, Elisabeth Krammer, Jörg Kindermann, Michael Petar

• credits:
  • Fenster: Firma Karl Hathold
  • Baufirma: Domweber Bau GmbH
  • HKLS: Neubauer GesmbH
  • Schlosser: Gansweider Metalltechnik GmbH
  • Parkett: Holz im Bau GesmbH & Co KG
  • Dachdecker: Bau&Dach GmbH
• photographer: Paul Ott